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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
The Discovery of Anthracite.
rom the Scientific American.

From the Scent life American.
Anthracite was discovered in Penn
sylvania in 100 by Nicholas Allen.
This Allen, according to the stories
and traditions that have been handed
down about him, must have been a
kind of Rip Van Wrinkle. He had
come down from the Lake Champlain
lumber region, and opened an inn on
the summit of Broad mountain. For
q time he led a wandering existence,
hunting, fishing and numbering, while
his wife attended to the wants of
thirsty travellers. In one of his hun t.
Ing excursions he camped out at tue
foot of the Broad mountain, at a
spot where a coal vein cropped out,
and upon lighting o fire, was aston
ished at the immense heat it threw off.
He also saw that some OF the black
some of it, and carried it home, when
his wife more practical than himself.
pronounced it coal. They saw the
coal crop out in abundance and Wis
ions OF fortunes that might berealized
out of it flashed through their minds
simultaneously. So, disposing Of
their effects, they loaded two large
covered wagons with the coal, and set
out for Philadelphia, with the inten-
ton of marketing it there and discov-
ering it's true value. They drove along
the banks OF the Schuylkill, sleeping
in the open air at night. At Potts
town three of their horses died, and
the coal was dumped into the river.
Wearied and disheartened, the pair
returned to the old place at the sum
nit of the mountain. and shortly aft
erward Allen laid his faithful wife to
rest over the coal vein that proved
their ruin, and turned his face toward
the west, where, after an nneventful
career, he enlisted for the campaign
under Harrison, and fell at Tippe-
canoe.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
Rural UncIeanness.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
calls upon Boards of Health to break
up the dense ignorance OF most of the
elementary laws of hygiene that pre-
walls in villages and rural communities,
alleging that the necessity for so doing
is again shown by the typhoid fever
epidemic at Waterford, Wis. The
Huneing family lived opposite the
Catholic parochial school. In their
yard was q well with the wooden pump
SO familiar about farm-houses, and
here all the school-children were &C.
customed to drink. A son Of the
Huneings came home from Milwaukee
sick with the typhoid fever, and the
utensils used in his care were rinsed
under the family pump. On July 5,
with thermometer at 108 in the shade,
every child in the school drank from
the contaminated well.
The epidemic resulted, of course; and
it will hang on the longer because Fox
River is damned at Waterford, flood
ing hundreds of acres, the surface OF
the water being covered with slime and
moss that tend to make the locality
generally unhealthy. This is an ex-
terme instance of q widespread ignor-
ance. Hundreds and Thousand ofNew
England farm-houses show sink drains
and wells that are a standing invita-
ton to diphtheria and typhoid fever,
and everybody in the neighborhood
takes it as q matter OF course. When
you get to smaller settlements than
busting villages, except, perhaps, in
places that live off from the summer
boarder, there is absolutely no power
OF intelligent public opinion on the
subject.
An intelligent minority keep their
surroundings healthful, but II they
attempt to extend that rule outside
their own door-yards they soon learn
the propriety of minding their own
business. In such communities scarlet
fever, diphtheria and even chicken
poxo are reckoned regular children's
diseases, a feature ofthe spring season,
and sshen they get into the district
schools children OF the clean and I'M
clean suffer alike. The propensity Of
the squalid part Of q city population
toward filth is checked by the public
authorities, and it is high time that
some rule was established over the
anne class in the country, where they
form q large proportion OF the inhabi-
tants, and where people who are wide
enough awake on other subjects are
strangely blind on this one.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
Why Girls Don't Marry.
Boston Herald.

Boston Herald.
A prominent woman physician OF
Boston has freely expressed her convic-
ton that the great superiority IN cul.
ture Of so many OF the young girls O.
to-day over that of the average men
who 60 early into business exerts ono
very bad effect, namely, that these
young girls do not want to marry
such men. There is no doubt a great
deal OF truth in the statement. In
fact, in other departments it has al
WAYS been noticed that one OF the
staining i'll effects Of the culture,
say, OF flowers, has been to make lts
votary prefer q tea rose to q head OF
cabbage; or, Of music, to prefer Q har.
monious orchestra to, q d~iscordant
street band; or, OF religion, to prefer
piety to profanity. Now, there is no
reason why the rule should not work
equally in the case of marriage. The
maxim that ''aDy husband is better
than no husband" had once q great
deal OF truth in it, for the condition OIL
the unmarried women was in bygone
days a forlorn one. She could no
more help growing sour than milk IN
thunder storm. Any and every wom-
an with the most insignificant sprig
of husband could turn up her nos
at her and embody a weight OF public
opinion in her comtemptuous attitude
that few single u~nfortunates could
have the dignity and self respect to
stand up against. To-day, however,
the scales tip the other way with .
vengeance.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
1.-THE Good Old Times"

From the Bridgeport Sentinel.
We often hear of the good old'days
Of yore." Why deprive ourchildrenof
the enjoyment OF those old daysY
Why not pass a law forbiddingsteam-
boats from blowing the waters; rail-
roads from running onland, telegraphs
from sending messages, telephones
being used; all furnaces, steam heat
ers, ETC., to be taken out of houses
and other buildings, all CRATES for
burning coal to be taken out. all
stoves to be melted for old iron. all
water-works in cities to be left emp
ty; the use of all gas and other illu-
minators, except dipped tallow an
dies, to be disused, and really go back
to the "good old times" say for five
years. Then, if at midnight on q
cold, stormy night, q doctor is
wanted, he must be sent for in-
stead of telephoning for him. Ii
one wished to send a message to
a distance, instead of telegraphing
he must write q letter and send it by
stages to it's distant place, and wait
patiently for days or weeks for the
answer. When one goes home on a.
freezing night he can sit by a wood fire,
roasting on one side while freezing the
other, and reading by the dim light OF
a tallow dip, instead of the blaze OF a
gaslight or the more agreeable light OF
Kerosene. If he undertakes Journey,
instead of getting into the cars and
going where he wishes, The best he can
do is to take a stage, at four times
the cost and ten times the discomfort
of the cars. Let these and other mod
ern improvements be forbidden and
good old days" be broughS back, how
long would it before an extra session
of the Legislature would bedamanded
to knock 1.-THE good old days into
splinters and to restore the much
better modern days which we now en-
joy and for which We ought to bemosS
devoutly thankful?
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
A Plucky Widow in New Orleans
Builds Up a Profitable Trade.

Down on Charities street there is q
flourishing factory, running an engine
OF eighteen horse power and employ
ing thirty-fVe men, women and boys,
that has been established, built up,
and is now under the sole direction
and supervision of q clever, plucky
woman, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat. Ten years ago this lady's
husband died, leaving her utterly I'M
provided for, with a large family of
children to support. In just suicides
perate circumstances has many q
mother had to face the world, but
there are few unfortunately who have
the energetic determination OF this lit.
tie widow.
Her husband had been a box-mak.
er, employing a number OF Northern
hands, from whom his wife had learn
ed every department ofthe trade, little
guessing when she sat up at night to
help the girls out in the work given
them by the peice that this same
knowledge would mi day stand her in
such good stead. But so it was, for
after failure in business after a long
illness, the husband died, leaving debt
instead of money TO his family.
Something had to be done, she says,
and that done quickly. for there was
not money enough ahead to pay even
the So rent for the attic in which they
lived. A brave heart and high cour-
age that refused to be daunted helped
her to decide on turning her knowledge
of box-making to practical account,
and, way upstairs In the ~hat-roofed,
crowded garnet, she began her work,
making herself every variety of paper
box the market demands.
She went around to the wholesale
confectioners, druggists, shoe-shops,
milliners, every business house that
used large quantities Of these pack
ing cases, soliciting patronage and
meeting with marked success, be-
ing another grateful woman, to
testify to the universal courtesy, kind
ness, and goodwill New Orleans peo-
pie show to the working class. So
many orders did she receive that in a
few months she was able to double the
space occupied and descend one story.
<AiObACA yoAA NCh1 w Gtu bhC DihAC
having grown to large and iourishing
proportions, warranting another in
crease, the third floor was added. and
this factory was no longer an expert
ment, but an establishment ofreputa-
ton.
The successful manager travelled for
her house,getting orders from all parts
OF Louisiana, and going on drumming
tours through Texas that always re-
suited in . large increase of patrons.
A fact of which she seemed to be most
proud was that when she c secured
q customer they we're hers always.
Two large houses she mentioned here
in the city, that had hrst given her
work had never wavered; she makes
hundreds OF boxes for them to-day.
Three years passed, and at last the
cautious head saw her business guar
anteed, adding the fourth and ground
floor to the three Others, now too
crowded.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
Superscnsitive Persons and How
They Get Worked mp to the
Pitch of Woe.

Pitch of Woe.
From the London Standard.
There was much kindly wisdom IL
Sir Walter SCOTS advice to his
daughters to beware OF proneness to
take, as we'll as to give, offense. Touchy
folks are trying companions. Over
constituencies this is the charitable
description of q disposition to be Of
Tended at t%rit1es) is, perhaps, rather a
modern than an ancient weakness,
though history presents q fair list Of
people who were as fallible in this re.
spect as any oftheirlater descendants.
Could any Loneliness exceed that OF
Robert, duke of Normandy? Accord.
ing to Holinshed, the king trying on a
new cloak, with a hood, and finding it
too tight for him, directed that the gar
ment should be taken to his brother
(the duke), who was q smaller man. A
light rent, however, had been made in
the garment, and the duke porceiving
it and hearing that the cloak had been
tried on by the king, Indignantly eX-
claimed: "NOw | perceive | have lived
too long, since my brother clothes me
like an almsman in his cast, rent gar
ments." and refusing all food starved
himself to deat',. Touchy must have
been the medieval German baron who
directed that his body should be bur
led upright in a pillar that no base
person should walk over his stomach.
Still, instances like these were rather
the exception than the rule in days OF
yore.
There is a story OF a Scotch minis,
ter preaching against the evils offalse.
hood, being interrupted by the parish
idiot, who exclaimed in an aggrieved
tone, Il dinna see why We suld be sac
hard on me, Mr.. -. Pm sure there's
main liars in the parish than me-"
The worthy divine had intended no
personal illusions, but the idiot
belonged to the ranks Of the touchy
ones. What social agonies are often
undergone by hosts and hostesses in
shielding 81 touchy guest from the at
tacks OF a good natured but hopeless
blunderer. They know too we'll how
the former is appropriating as stud,
led insults all the airy remarks which
the blunderer is making in happy
ignorance of the feeling OF his listeners.
For the blunderer is the exact OBJ
posite of the touchy person; the latter
is too sensitive, the former too obtuse.
The touchy one reads hidden mean
ings where none are intended; the
hlunderer is deaf and blind to the
plainest hints.
Few people possess the kindly sense
of the French able mentioned in the
memoirs of Madame Vigee de. Brun,
the celebrated portrait painter of the
last century. This gentleman was,
unfortunately, extremely deformed,
and, playing at cards with him, Mad
anne de Brun was so struck by his
strange figure that she inadvertently
hummed q few bars of a tune called
1.-THE Hunchback." Immediately rec
ollecting herself she stopped i'll con-
fusion, whereupon the able turned to
her with akindly smile, "My dear mad
anne, continue your tune. / assure
you it does not offend me in the least;
the association is so natural a one
that / believe it would have occurred
to me in your place"
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Meanwhile, another sleigh was flying
along the fashionable drives of the
city, in which sat Flossie Ringgold and
the gallant Colonel Waterson.
But the brilliant belle was scarcely
her own bewitching self this evening.
She was unusually silent and dull;
for, to tell the truth, her heart vas
sorely troubled.
Not that she doubted her power
over Gerald. nor that she felt any
sorrow for having tricked him SO
shamefnlly.
But. when she reflected upon the
character and n OF tho mar
for whose d~isagreeable company she
aad risked Gerald's displeasnre, she
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AN AWFUL DEATH,
Suicide OF an Unknown Man by Jumping
Into tho Water-WOrks Machinery at
Chicago.

Suicide OF an Unknown Man by Jumping
Into tho water-worls Machinery at
Chicago.
CHICAGO, March GA neatly but cheapiy-
clad man, apparently about twenty five
years old, leaned for few moments over
tho guard-rail surrounding one of the big
engines at the North Side Water Works
this morning. Then he slipped under the
rail, and, as tho head Of tho crank shaft
rose from the pit in the floor into which
it plungcs on the down stroke he
slipped into the pit and laid down. The
crank-hcad came down and swept into the
pit. The mans body was literally ground
to pieces, yet no sound was heard to cs-
cape his lips. As the crank head rose from
the floor it carried his body with it, crush
ing it through small space and throwing
it in shapelcss mass against the cylinder
head few feet away. The face was dis
figured beyond recognition, and hardly u
bone in the body was left unbrokcn. Tho
engineer was promptly notified Of the ter
rible occurrence, and drew the manglcd
corpse from the place where it had been de-
posted. There was nothing on the body
by which it could be identified. In the
pockets were found q bunch of keys and
an open-faced gold watch. There was q
laundry mark of the initials &C. p" on the
shirt, and pinned to the vest was badge
showing that the unfortunate man was
member OF the Scandinavian Workmen's
Association that meets at Concordiu Hall
in Milwaukee avenue.
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A CALLING YOKE
Tho People of Newfoundland Reported 20
BE ON the Verge Of Rebellion Agaiass
British Rule. y T..


Tho People of Newfoundland Reported 70
BE ON the Verge Of Rebellion Againss
OTTAWA, ONT, March 6.-Advices from
Newfoundland show that in their ultima
tum to the British Government in forward
ing the Bait bill for Imperial assent,
the Legislature Of that colony is
determined not to be trampled upon
by the Queen or by any in author
ity under her. The text Of the address
Of the Legislature of Newfoundland to
the Imperial Government shows that the
island is greatly excited. It says in effect
that Newfoundland will not submit to the
situation. The address goes on to say /:
1--WE must decline respectfully to accept
the view that the French or any other for
eign power has o status or consultative
claim in the control or disposition of our
property, and we humbly demur to any
recognition Of their pretensions in this re.
spect. We acknowledge no authority
but that Of the Imperial Government,
and their rights of dominion are wisely
limited by our constitutional powers,
which secures for us the free exercise of
our instructed intelligence in the manage.
ment of our local affairs" The same ad-
vices state that tho colony is on the verge
Of an open rebellion, and that little
encouragement would be required to
cause general uprising against
the yoke of British connection,
which, they claim, bears heavily
upon them. Private dispatches received
here state that strong sentiment favor
ing annexation to the United States is
spreading throughout the province, which
is likely to give serious trouble unless the
British Government yields in granting the
demand the Provincial Government is now
making
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wIFELY DEVOTION.
Death in a Blinding Snow
Storm
To save Her Dying Husband, Hut without
Avail.

SHELL LAKE, Wis, March 2.-News has
Just reached here Of q heroic but unavail.
ing attempt of wife to save her husbands
life under peculiarly distressing circum.
stances. 1t presents an example Of
wifely devotion rarely met. Thursday
Fritz Haas and his wife were at Shell
Lake doing some trading, and about two
o'clock in the afternoon started for
home. The couple had walked to town in
the morning, and they felt equal to the
task Of walking back again, distance Of
five miles. 1t was bitter cold day, and rs
they advanced the wind began to blow.
Before half Of their journey had been ac-
complished they were wrapped in blind
ing snow-storm and their progress became
slow and difficult. Soon MIR. Hass sank
down in the snow, completely exhausted
and unable to proceed. His now frantic
wife tried in vain to urge him on,
but she was compelled to leave him
and seek aid at the nearest house.
When she arrived at the house she
sought she found a woman alone. 1t was
now about ten o'clock at night, but, taking
blankets, the two women started to succor
Mr.. Hass. He was unconscious when they
reached him, and with difficulty they sue
ceeded in getting him few rods further
toward Shell Lake. But Hass was large,
fleshy man, and the women were
compelled to abandon their efforts
in his behalf Wrapping her ex-
hausted husband in blankets and
giving him some nourishment, Mrs. Hass
sat down beside him, while her kind assist
ant started for her home. Mrs. Haas stay
ed with her husbsnd until he died, about
eight o'clock in the morning. When help
arrived at the scene the unfortunate couple
was taken home, one nearly as lifeless as
the other. Mr.. Hass was seventy years
of age, and his faithful wife few years
his Junior
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ANARCHY IN BULGARIA.
A Score of Revolutionists Cap-
tured and Shot.
A Largo Number Slain in the sllistris
A1alr.

SorIA. March 4.-The leaders of the re-
volt ut Rustchuk have been ordered to be
shot. fu,
PARIS, March "A telegram from Giur-
gevo says that risings have taken place at
Tirnova and other places, and that the in.
surgcnts are reported to be masters Of
affairs at Tirnova. Communication be-
tween Sofia and the Provinces is inter-
rupted. Anarchism is spreading in Bulga-
ria.
LONDON, March A dispatch to tho
Times from Bucharest states that many
persons were killed in the fighting at Silis-
tria between the insurgents and Loyal
troops. Two officers and sixteen privates,
who were engaged in the revolt, were cap
tured and shot.
VIENNA, March 4.-Servia, as a precau-
tionary measure in view Of the trouble IN
Bulgaria, has sent troops to the frontier.
1t is also reported that the Servian re-
serves have been called out.
SOFIA, March Ain the final engagement
between the insurgents and the infantry at
Rustchuk one hundred persons were kill
ed and wounded on both sides, the insur-
gents sustaining fully three-fourths Of the
casualties.
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Nypano Brakemen Strike,

PITTSBURGH, March "A Chronicle 7e'e.
graph Youngstown (O.) special says: All
the freight brakemen on the New York,
Pennsylvania Il Ohio railroad, of the yard
and road crews, struck this morning and
freight traffic on the line through here is
entirely suspended. The employees had o
meeting last evening and were informed
that Superintendent O'Brien had given in
structions to enforce the order taking the
third brakeman off each crew and acting
upon this information the men decided to
quit work. They assert that when the
strike was settled last fall it was agreed
that each crew should have three brake
men. Officials Of the line are expected
here tonight when the matter will be ad.
iusted
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GOING TO BE MORMONs.
Polygamous Elders Doing Successful
Work In the South.

CnATTANooGA,T Tenn, March 2.-The semi.
annual begira of Mormon converts from
the Southern States to Utah took place
yesterday. Chattanooga is the Southern
headquarters Of the Church. The converts
assembled here and left about two hum
dred strong. They were in charge of
John Morgan, Chief Elder. They all came
from Southern States and were an litter
ate class of people. The converts labor
under the delusion that Utah is a land of
milk and honey. All of the men had large
families and many had only few dollars
left after purchasing their tickets. There
are now two hundred members at work in
the South
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Shed His Blood In Vain.

DEs MONIES, IA, March 3.-The wife Of
Hoyt Sherman, of this city, died yesterday
afternoon of physical exhaustion, after o
lingering illness. A short time ago an eff
fort was made to strengthen her vitality
by TRANSMISSION of blood from the arm Of
her son Frank, vigorous young man.
The benefit was only temporary. Mrs.
Sherman was one of the oldest settlers Of
Des Moines, one of the social leaders Of
the city, and a woman greatly esteemed
for her many fine qualities. Her hus-
band is the brother of Senator John
Sherman, Of Ohio, and General W. T.
Sherman
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4 True Fish Story,

OwESsBoRo, KY, March Cat Rockport,
ind, during shower, Jacob Stein looked
out of a window and saw catfish eight
inches long fluttering on the ground. He
went out, called ncighbors and found 24O
catfish three to eight inches long, all live
iy and unhurt. They were gathered up,
and many were cooked and eaten. This is
no fish story, but facts, and there is no ac-
counting for the presence of the fish, cx-
cept that they were brought by the shower
and dropped.
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PHonelled BY Electricity.

New York, March 4.-Pedestrians on
The Eighth avenue boulevards stared to-
day at surface car that ran smoothly
along the tracks loaded with passengers,
but without any horses hitched to 1t.
The car was regular Eighth
avenue horse car, fitted with q
new electric motor. The motive power
was supplied by electricity stored in nine
ty-three ebonite cells in frnme under the
seats. 1t runs forty-one miles, with sev-
euty passengers, at any rate Of speed,
with a single charge. At night the elec-
tricity can be used to light the cars as well
Is to propel them
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Col Hold Of the Wrona Cup.

WHEELING, w. Va, March 3.-Mrs. FL
pert Mazewell, who lives near Short
Creek, in this county, last night went to q
cupboard to get some sugar kept in cup.
She placed a spoonful in a cup Of tea and
drank it. Shortly she was seized with
severe pains and called her daughter, who
at once discovered that her mother had
taken rough on rats by mistake. A phys!.
clan was at once sent for, but Mrs. Maze
well died in few hours after suffering
great agony.